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2012 Cephalopod Awareness Days! More Japanese Cephalopod Monsters (KAIJU)!
So, every once in awhile, I decide to go off-topic and do something weird to break up the monotony and WHAT better way to do that than to go off and dabble with cephalopods for awhile!I did this last...
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Fossil Parasites & Commensals! 5 Examples! Happy National Fossil Day!
Various shots of the snail Cyclonema feeding on the anal vent of the crinoid Glyptocrinus decadactylus from the excellent page of the Kentucky Paleontological SocietySo, today is National FOSSIL DAY!...
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Benthic Ctenophore Video Watch!
Photo by Arne KuilmanThis is one of those RARELY seen animals that I love sharing with people because they are SO strange.First lesson: Ctenophores are a group similar in appearance to jellyfish. But...
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Five SPOOKY Things about Echinoderms! Happy Halloween!
From J. Mallefet's Lab PageEchinoderms are WEIRD animals. That's why I love them.Their evolution is replete with adaptations to survival that are kind of mind blowing but as with all insanely unusual...
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Sea Star/Starfish Close Ups!
Image by Alexander SemenovBonjour to everyone! At the moment I am continuing my research in Paris at the Museum national d'Historie naturelle! Here are a bunch of my prior posts about studying at this...
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Paris!
Bonjour! The Echinoblog greets you from Paris France where I am currently working with my colleagues at the world famous Le Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle where I am working with my colleagues on...
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Paris! Sea Urchins or Street Urchins?
This week, the Urchins of Paris! Wait, what? Do you mean those delightful scamps that run around making mischief in the streets ??Not street urchins-but oursins! Or Sea urchins! (tests-the dried...
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Off-topic: Sea Spiders (aka Pycnogonids) Galore!
Here's looking at you!Image by the always awesome Arthur Anker! (Straits of Johore Biodiversity Survey, Oct 2012)This week, owing to "crunch time" on my trip and being up to my arm pits in Antarctic...
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Off-topic: A Panoply of Polychaetes! Photos by Arthur Anker
Just returned from Paris and am snowed under by jet lag and catchup, so here are some stunning images of various polychate worms! by my colleague Arthur Anker formerly at the Universidade Federal do...
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Hawaiian Brisingid Starfish Munitions Mysteries!
Image courtesy of Chris Kelley, Hawaiian Undersea Research LabsNovember has been a busy month! While I was hard at work in Paris other projects were underway! I often wish that I could be in two places...
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Biodiversity Spotlight on: The NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Department!
This week a departure from the weekly echinoblogging to spotlight some people behind the biodiversity of marine invertebrates! (although that is a very photogenic Protoreaster lincki on the cover!)A...
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Happy Heterocentrotus Holidays from the Echinoblog!
Its Christmas! I'm off to enjoy eggnog and awful movies but here's some bright colorful sea urchins for the holidays! Heterocentrotus from the Indo-Pacific (mostly Heterocentrotus mammilatus pics)My...
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400th POST! 2012 Cool Happenings & Top Posts from the Echinoblog!
As 2012 draws to a close here are Five (of course) cool and awesome things that the Echinoblog enjoyed this year! These are not in any particular order....1. MENTORSHIP! This year I mentored 3 kids...
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5 Unusual Invertebrates that People Eat! (it takes an Invert Zoo Class to...
Okay you invertebrate zoologists out there!! How many phyla can YOU recognize on the plate above??? By the end of this blog you WILL know! (and maybe, you will hate me for telling you)Everyone seems...
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A Galaxy Class of Gorgonocephalus! A Basket Star Bonanza! (A Star Trek...
Image by Viktor Lyagushkin. Gorogonocephalus from the White Sea Basket stars are a very unusual kind of brittle star (note that they are NOT proper starfish) which have long, branching arms which they...
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So, between travel, being sick, yesterday's massive Inauguration Day festivities and playing catchup, this week has been crazy!So here are some neat starfish time lapse videos to keep you informed and...
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Echinoderm Tube Feet Don't Suck! They Stick!
Image by Steve CoreyA few months ago, I wrote apost that summarized ongoing developments showing how the tube feet in echinoderms (best seen in sea stars and sea urchins) was primarily based on a...
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Brittle Stars Have TEETH! What do they use them for?
Brittle stars are everywhere. They are the most speciose of all the living echinoderms with over 2000 species (probably MUCH more than that!). At this moment in time, for studying brittle stars we live...
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Starfish Mystery! 3 Oceans,2 Hemispheres,but ONE species?!
Today a post about a NEW paper currently available as advance ONLINE at Marine Biology (yes, there's a paywall) authored by myself and Dave Foltz my colleague (with help from Scott Fatland) at...
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